Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . burns Ithe tender roots of the cuttings. Mr. ?Alexander Forsyth, a very intel- iligent young gardener, recommendsthe following plan : Take a wide- mouthed forty-eight size pot, andput some potsherds at the bottom,in the usual manner. Then takea wide-mouthed small sixty, andput a piece of clay in the bottom, tostop the hole, and then place it in-side the other, so that the tops ofboth pots may be on a level. Thespace between the pots must thenbe filled in with sand or other soil,and the cuttings inserted as shownin Jjg. 7. The inner po
Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . burns Ithe tender roots of the cuttings. Mr. ?Alexander Forsyth, a very intel- iligent young gardener, recommendsthe following plan : Take a wide- mouthed forty-eight size pot, andput some potsherds at the bottom,in the usual manner. Then takea wide-mouthed small sixty, andput a piece of clay in the bottom, tostop the hole, and then place it in-side the other, so that the tops ofboth pots may be on a level. Thespace between the pots must thenbe filled in with sand or other soil,and the cuttings inserted as shownin Jjg. 7. The inner pot should befilled with water, and the outer potmay then be plunged in the ground,or into a hotbed, and covered witha glass, or not, according to thenature of the cutting. In Jig. 7, ashows the clay stopping of the innerpot; b, the drainage of the pot-sherds ; c, the sand, or other soil, inwhich the cuttings are inserted;and d, the water in the inner method, which is shownin fig. 8, is to have a small pot (asixty), b, turned upside down in a. Fig. 7.—Forsyths Mode. larger pot (a thirty-two), a, and tohave the space c filled with smallpebbles ; e is a layer of peat earthor moss, and d a covering of kind of pot is very useful forall cuttings that are liable to dampoff, as the water trickles down
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